"Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason and the mind becomes a wreck." --Thomas Jefferson

Monday, November 16, 2009

The Great Ones

You know how it was said that behind every great man is a great woman. But this point should also be noted; there are and always have been many more, less than great men than great ones, so what does that tell you now?

In my life time I have observed when it comes to couples; one or the other always puts forth the public face for both, while the other works behind the scene in support, indifference or cross purpose and great success comes only for those that receive comparable and compatible support. They work in tandem to achieve public support of their mutual purposes, and above all avoid the public impression of deceit, which is the Medias’ every attempt to portray.

Sarah Palin appears to me to be the one woman with a very good mans man behind her, thus has the potential to achieve greatness in her time and Americas as long as he keeps her feet solidly anchored, to avoid the pitfalls of celebrity.

In politics and government it is the refusal to be candid in a down to earth sense, and fear of saying something not PC that the public detests. What the silent majority wants to hear and see is the raw truth not the nuanced truth; they know what it is, but want confirmation from those in the public eye even if it hurts. In plain language call a spade a spade without equivocation or simply for the shock value of it. One does not have to call another ignorant, but can and should call their public actions such. Defeat ignorance at its source in real time that is how you shame them out of it. Pick your fights with the actions of others not the personality of celebrity. The American public already knows who the ignorant ones are; they only want to know if you can see it also. Common sense will always defeat ignorance no matter how brilliant its presentation.

This all comes from an average no-account but patriotic American. To Sarah Palin; keep it up, and Todd don't let her down. I hope that’s not too down to earth for anyone if it is “tuff.

excerpts from ! I AM SOVEREIGN

Drifting from Self Evident Truth?

The author of this Blog

40 yrs hence in a different land

Secession!

The issue of secession was settled years ago in and by the civil war it is not accounted for in the Constitution. When a state becomes disillusioned or seriously dissatisfied with the conditions of their individual association with the federal cement that binds them with other states there is a constitutional resolve within the Constitution.

All they have to do is call a convention of the states and dissolve the existing federal government. It was the states that created it and only the states can dissolve it short of a people’s revolution by violent means.

Upon dissolving the federal government in convention after this long of a union, it would stand to reason that a reconstitution of a federal authority would be called for minus the flaws that have caused the states to dissolve it in the first place. Based on a good understanding of our history I would suppose adopting the original Constitution with added checks on the avarice of human nature and the control of human ambition in the pursuit of power in much the same way we reorganize large corporations, cut the fat, consolidate some parts and remove redundancies as well as many programs and useless parts of our giant federal bureaucracy.

This can be done in a bloodless fashion and would constitute a rebirth of our entire nation without skipping a beat in the future of our worldly status as the last best hope of mankind.

This represents the rights of the sovereign states as was/is their constitutionally given right to do in the name of we the people and our sovereign rights as given us by our creator.